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Delegation of Western men, including two congressmen, calls upon President to offer two Negro regiments from Indiana. President agrees to use men as laborers, but will not make them soldiers.
Remarks
to Deputation of Western Gentlemen, 4 August 1862,
CW, 5:356-57; Evening Star (Washington, DC), 6 August 1862, 2d ed., 2:2.

President Lincoln writes to
French author Agénor-Etienne de Gasparin, who wrote a book about
America's Civil War, and who had written to Lincoln regarding the North's troop
strength. Lincoln confides that he may have to institute "a draft." He explains
that many men are "pay[ing] and send[ing] substitutes" rather than enlisting
themselves. Lincoln adds, "I can only say that I have acted upon my best
convictions without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God, I shall
continue to do so." Abraham
Lincoln to Agénor-Etienne de Gasparin, 4 August 1862,
CW, 5:355-56; Mary L. Booth, translator,
The Uprising of a Great People, The United States in 1861, 3rd
ed., (New York: Charles Scribner, 1861); Agenor-Etienne Gasparin to Abraham
Lincoln, 18 July 1862, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
DC.